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London Fashion Week has officially started! If New York Fashion Week is glossy, polished – Tommy Hilfiger taking over Grand Central Station’s Oyster Bar with models who look like they summer in Cape Cod and winter in Aspen – London is more provocative, a touch grittier (and not just because of the February weather).
“This city’s designers will take you to places you’ve never been – physically and emotionally,” Vogue’s Sarah Mower writes in her tribute to LFW ahead of its 40th anniversary this week. “Their runways are East End basements, garages, underground clubs and medieval churches, rotting warehouses, and garden squares, high-rise City offices and neighborhood streets, museums, theatres and palaces.”
And while London is perhaps the least starry of fashion’s Big 4, what its front rows lack in TikTok Discover Page favourites, they make up for in unpredictability and – quite frankly – fun (think of the Queen, perched next to Anna Wintour at Richard Quinn in 2018) and a surfeit of supermodels (recall Naomi closing Sarah Burton’s final Alexander McQueen runway last season).
As London Fashion Week gets underway, see the best front-row style so far, below.
This article was previously published on Vogue.co.uk
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